49 hot dogs in 12 minutes
Not really “Japanese food”, but still very much news about Japan and food, it is a Japanese man, Takeru Kobayashi, who won the Nathan’s Famous hot-dog eating contest held every July 4th, for the fifth year in a row. He managed to gulp 49 frankfurters in 12 minutes. Unfortunately, he didn’t manage to beat his own world record of 53-1/2 dogs, set last year. Kobayashi is 27, stands 1.67 metres and weighs 65 kg.
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February 20th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
hey, he is also the krystal eating champion. while I was in the US the fast food restaurant kyrstal (similar to white castle) had him on the side of their bags etc as the world record holder.
Man, this guy can eat!